Colonel Desmond Travers, part of the UN ‘fact-finding’ mission to Gaza, which found both Israel and Hamas guilty of war crimes, is challenged by Jonathan Hoffman during a talk at LSE. Note how Travers completely dodges the second-half of Jonathan’s question. (Video by Jonathan Sacerdoti).
My post on ‘The Goldstone Test’ is here.
This is going on my blog Chas as well thanks. That guy on the panel to Traver’s right looks a bit like Henry Kissinger. I take it it was not?
Duvidl loves a good Irish joke like Travers. Here’s a traditional Irish song dedicated to this Irish gum-flapper:
The Irish Gum-Flapper
(to the tune of “The Wild Rover.” Hat tip: Irish Tradition)
Travers has been gum-flapping for many’s the year.
And his gums keep flapping till his face feels quite queer.
They flap like Judge Goldstone makes up his own law.
And the words their gums flap make all other ears sore.
Chorus: And it’s no nay never, no nay never no more,
Should Travers flap those loose gums.
He’s a true Irish bore.
He takes from his cake-hole too many false gnashers;
Wipes them on his tache like other Israel-bashers.
Unhindered gum-flapping they now don’t impede.
In chorus with Goldstone, he can gum-flap indeed.
Chorus: And it’s no nay never, no nay never no more,
Should Travers flap those loose gums.
He’s a true Irish bore. (repeat with new last line:)
Irish bore to the core. (repeat with new last line:)
We prefer six-day phwoar.
DS Al Coda
How dare these pompous, self-rightious people invade the sovereigity of Israel; a democratic state with a highly advanced jurisprudence and free media capable of policing hersef, and tell that state what to do! How would the Brits like it if Israel sent officials to England to investigate anti-Semitic attacks by Muslims, currently regarded by the police as ‘inter-communal vilence’ in order not to finger the religion of peace as the culprit, Or to the Irish Cathofascist state to investigate the butchery of Jews over two thousand years by the Catholic church, a body with which that state is indissolubly merged. More from the school of Mary Robinson methinks.